Donald Trump greets supporters, tourists and the curious at a Trump-owned building in New York.
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

If the former reality TV star and billionaire landlord Donald Trump somehow becomes president of the United States, it would be his 458th presidency, according to the most detailed accounting of his still mysterious fortune.

Inside Donald Trump's billions – read the full financial disclosure

Read more

Financial records made public on Wednesday by the Federal Election Commission – under rules for presidential candidates, among whom Trump has been leading in the polls – reveal a sprawling empire of casinos, golf courses, publishing royalties, model agencies and his long-withheld real estate holdings.

They also detail $265m in debts, and a total of $1.75m in speaking fees – among other ways Trump continues to make money off himself.

But the presidential hopeful is already president of a lot of companies.

By a few pages into the FEC filing, the word “president” quickly loses all meaning, not because of Trump’s political fitness for office so much as that it appears so many times – 457 in all. Trump also presides over more companies in the capacity of director, chairman, trustee or member.

“This report was not designed for a man of Mr Trump’s massive wealth,” his campaign said in the earlier statement. The financial disclosures are required for participation in the first Republican debate next month, which will include the top finishers in an average of national polls.

Donald Trump: a brand in danger or a daring re-invention?

The FEC forms count any asset worth more than $50m as the same – and Trump has close to two dozen of those, including his Scottish golf course and the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump is president, director, secretary and treasurer of the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida. (The disclosures did not require him to predict if he would add chairman of the Federal Reserve to his portfolio should he reach the White House.)

Here are some other highlights of the huge financial report:

Trump has invested at least $250,000 in TransCanada, the Canadian company hoping to build the controversial Keystone Pipeline.

Trump values his holdings in the Miss Universe pageant between $5m and $25m. NBC dropped Miss Universe when the broadcaster jettisoned The Apprentice last month due to “derogatory statements” by Trump regarding immigrants.

Trump’s Screen Actors Guild pension is worth $110,228 per year. He has a long list of acting credits to his name: as well as his starring role in the now cancelled Apprentice, Trump has appeared in movies including Zoolander and Home Alone 2.

Trump is making between nothing and $201 per year on 11 of his books. The candidate has authored 16 books, according to his website, 14 of which were listed in the FEC report. The majority – including Why We Want You to Be Rich, Trump 101: The Way to Success and The America We Deserve – brought him either no income or less than $201. The Art of the Deal still made him at least $15,000, though.

Trump made $2.25m in commissions from his modeling firm, Trump Model Management.

Samsung paid Trump $150,000 in speaking fees.

Trump made at least $1m in mattress licensing – meaning Donald Trump is literally making money while you sleep.